It's that time of the week again: we're counting the logical fallacies in an Ann Coulter article again. Today we're defanging this article.
Wow, she pulled out a lot of stops today. Especially at the end. I'm not sure what's going on with Ann, but she's mad.
Alright, let's dive in. So at the top of the article she talks about democrats having the "paranormal ability to detect racism and sexism". Sure, liberals seem extremely sensitive to these issues, often more so than common sense would dictate, but paranormal? That's exaggeration. AnnCoulter.fallacies++
She then turns on Bill O'Reilly, calling him a liberal and saying that HE TOO can read minds. Maybe Ann was watching too much John Edward (the psychic) and confused him with John Edwards the candidate, so now she thinks that all liberals (O'Reilly's a liberal?) have ESP. That's exaggeration AND ad hominem. A two-fer!
Later on, Ann says that Dan Rather would not accept something "patently false" from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That's 'begging the question', by assuming we all agree the documents are false. Do I think they're false? Doesn't matter. A little bit later, Ann says that Rather and Jayson Blair are similar, implying that Rather is lying like Jayson Blair since Blair made stories up. That's exaggeration, and ad hominem. Another two-fer! Damn she's hot today.
She strings together some other ad hominem attacks, calling Rather "Ted Baxter", decrying a book attacking book because it was written by a 'convicted felon', calling Dan Rather an idiot. But where she gets really feisty is where she cuts into Kitty Kelley claiming that Kelley is crazy because she's got syphilis, and it's making her nuts, which is why her books are filled with wild allegations. She turns the screw tighter and says that Kelley got it from hanging out as a 'lady of the night' in Baltimore, along the trucking routes. WOW. Those are some heavy allegations.
But if I may devolve to some Ann Coulter-like thinking for a minute, I don't think it's surprising for a Stepford Wife like Coulter to get catty about another woman author who sells better than her, especially considering they engage in the same tactics: rumors, whisper campaigns, wild allegations, and half-truths. Shit, apparently hanging around the Coulter columns spread the cancer of logical fallacies.
I need to go read some Bertrand Russell or Wittgenstein, which is like philosophical fiber, flushing the colon-cancer-like fallacies I've been consuming.
Alright! Enough of that. Total count for today: 14 Way to go Ann!
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